Pubvana, formally known as Open Blog, is a free, easy and secure content management system (CMS) that can to use for personal blogging and small business portal..

It’s easy to set up and install… Just download, install with few clicks and you’re done!

If you want a Content Management System (CMS) that is easy to use and manage, then Pubvana CMS is a good place to start… Pubvana is built with powerful Twitter Bootstrap front-end framework…. Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web…

This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow enterprises and business owners to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile…

Now that Apache2 is installed…. to test whether the web server is working, open your browser and browse to the URL below…

http://localhost

If you see the page above, then Apache2 is successfully installed…

Step 2: Install MariaDB Database Server

Pubvana also requires a database server to store its content… If you’re looking for a truly open source database server, then MariaDB is a great place to start… To install MariaDB run the commands below:

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

After installing MariaDB, the commands below can be used to stop, start and enable MariaDB service to always start up when the server boots…

Next, run the commands below to secure the database server with a root password if you were not prompted to do so during the installation…

sudo mysql_secure_installation

When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter

Set root password? [Y/n]: Y

New password: Enter password

Re-enter new password: Repeat password

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

Now that MariaDB is installed, to test whether the database server was successfully installed, run the commands below…

sudo mysql -u root -p

type the root password when prompted…

If you see a similar screen as shown above, then the server was successfully installed…

Step 3: Install PHP 7.2 and Related Modules

Pubvana CMS is a PHP based CMS and PHP is required… However, PHP 7.2 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories… To run PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and previous, you may need to run the commands below: